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Informational 21 Bitcoin

support multiple block status checks in CheckBlockDataAvailability

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What the developer wrote

Authored by furszy

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support multiple block status checks in CheckBlockDataAvailability
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit expands an internal Bitcoin Core function so it can check for multiple types of stored block data, not just raw block files. It also adds a special case so the check does not incorrectly fail because the genesis block has no undo data. The change is primarily a code-quality and correctness improvement; there is no direct evidence it fixes an active security vulnerability.

Recommended action

No immediate action required. Treat as a normal code-quality/refactoring change. Review any future callers that pass BLOCK_HAVE_UNDO to ensure they handle the genesis-block edge case correctly.

Security signals we found

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Correctness fix for data-availability check

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New parameter allows callers to require undo data as well as block data

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Genesis-block edge case handled explicitly

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Unit tests added for missing-undo detection

Risk score

Why this scored 21/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 3/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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